EastSide Arts Alliance presents…
26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival
26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival
San Antonio Park, Oakland • FREE to the community
Saturday, May 16, 2026
11:00 - 7:00 PM
Jazz Stage Featuring
TheFuturelics, RyanNicole&NuDekades, DariaNile. YGB, DJKLAV
Bantaba Drum Call: Baba Mosheh
Belafonte KidZone
Activities offered by Afro Play, Oakland Public Library, and Mocha
Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage
Bay Area poets, organizers, and culture workers speak out on local and international issues and campaigns
Katherine Dunham Dance Stage
Curated by José Ome Navarrete Mazatl
Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
Cultura y Tradición Afro-Puerto Rican Traditions
Hip-Hop Final Battle: Winners of the Zumbi Court Cyphers
SambaFunk! w/ King Theo
MIKE "DREAM" GRAFFITI COURT
BlackBook battles, Graffiti Wallsand Live Art Custom Caps Workshops.
Teach Them Young! Space for young aspiring artists
Prizes, Supply Giveaways & more!
Zumbi Court
Dj's • emcees • dance cyphers • battles
Vendors & Organizations
Artisan Gallery featuring local artists and craftfolk
Local community organizations
Wellness Zone
Practitioners provided by APTP, Freedom Community Clinic and other trusted community healers providing wellness modalities for free to our community.
Food Court
International flavors of the Town!
*We deliberately gather our respective communities to celebrate Black Liberation as a compass toward a unified Third World Community- at the 26th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival at San Antonio Park. Together we celebrate the teachings and strength of Brother Malcolm and the tradition spawned twenty six years ago when EastSide Arts Alliance set out to create a Third World Cultural Center to serve and unite the Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland and internationally. EastSide began as a part of a fusion of cultural collectives of color which organized a steady stream of art programs, town hall forums, youth workshops, and visual exhibitions at the EastSide Cultural Center (which now includes a Third World archive and bookstore).
